Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has urged compatriots held in Australian-run immigration detention centres to come home and assured that legal actions would not be taken against them. He gave this assurance during his official visit in Australia as he stood beside his Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull. “They left Sri Lanka illegally. When questioned by the journalists about their safety in Sri Lanka, the Prime Minister had answered that it was quite safe them to return. All of them are not even Tamils and even we want all the Tamils to come back.

Source: The Nation February 15, 2017 04:41 UTC